AVERY LIBRARY 
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 


ELECTRICITY IN THE HOME MEANS ECON- 
OMY, COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE 


The House Without 
a Kitchen Chimney 


A house without a kitchen chimney may 
not be within your grasp or may not be desired 
by you at the present time, but a home containing 
a reasonable number of modern conveniences is a 
necessity. 

There is no more reason why you should put 
up with discomfort and positive lack of ordinary 
necessities in your own home than there is for you 
to tolerate poor service and out-of-date methods 
of illumination in a modern hotel. 

The private residence which does not utilize 
Electricity in some shape or form is as antiquated 
as a hotel of the period of 1860. 

The old-fashioned housekeeper would not have 
believed you if told that a house without a kitchen 
chimney was a possibility—that hot water with~ 
out a boiler was simply a matter of turning a 
switch—that laundry work required no stove for 
heating irons—or that lamps required no oil ; and 


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BURGLARS AVOID ELECTRICALLY 
LIGHTED HOUSES. WOULD YOU 
LIKE TO KNOW THE REASON? 


vet; that is what Electricity has done for the 
housekeeper of to-day. 

The illustration on the middle pages of this 
booklet is a reproduction of some photographs 
taken of a house which does not contain a kitchen 
chimney. There are, 


to-day, quite a num-~ 


ber of these houses 


in various places in 


this country, and 


these houses are not 
the homes of the 
rich or the homes of 
the faddist. We 
have reached the 
point where the use 


of Electrical ap- 


paratus and Electric 
Light 1s no longer the 
exclusive privilege of the wealthy. 

The rates named for the use of Electricity 
in residences in Philadelphia are lower than any 
cities of the first class in this country, and in 


Bathroom Conveniences 


AN ELECTRIC HEATING PAD IS 
NEVER TOO HOT NOR TOO COLD. 
SINCE LY DURING THE SWITCH 


addition to that fact, the liberal user of Electric 
Light in residences receives a rate which is lower, 
lamp for lamp, than any other modern illuminant. 

Now-a-days, housekeeping really is a busi- 
ness—quite as exacting and difficult for the 
housewives as ‘“money~grubbing ” is for the men ; 
and if there is one function more than another 
which Electricity can be made to serve, it 1s 
that of making housekeeping simple and easy and 


economical. Hundreds of two-story houses in 
West Philadelphia are using Electricity in some 
of its many forms. This fact, alone, should be 
conclusive proof of its economy. 

Many of the little Electrical helps and practi~ 
cal conveniences to which we call attention else- 
where in this booklet have become necessities in 
thousands of Philadelphia homes. They have 
done more to simplify household work, to econo- 
mize labor and clarify the servant problem than 
all the theories and advice to housekeepers that 
have ever been presented. 

We could tell you at length of the advantages 
of the use of Electric Light from a sanative stand-~ 


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FOR THAT HUNGRY FEELING 
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ELECTRIC CHAFING DISH 


point—and so on; but we would like to tell you 
those things verbally. There is just this to 
remember about the cost: at 10 cents per kilowatt 
hour, Electric Light is on a par with gas at $1.00 
per thousand feet, and the liberal user of Elec- 
tricity, as stated 
before, obtains a 
discount which 
brings his rate for 
Electric Light 
below that which 


he pays for gas. 


An 
Electric 
Kitchenette 


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Electrical Helps 
to Housekeeping 


The trouble with the average person is that he 
or she thinks the uses of Electricity begin and end 
with its two most useful forms—Electric Light and 
Electric Power. 

We call your attention to the following table, 
which has been compiled with a view of showing, 
in a small way, how extensive the use of Elec- 
tricity can be made, and also to demonstrate how 
very inexpensive Electrical apparatus is to operate: 


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ARTICLE Oseaten : se 10e. ; = 
Chatinge Dish « s206 is 23's 20 minutes 2% cts. 
Pint Baby Milk Warmer and 
Food Heater es: vas 4 6 F Y ct. 
Quart Food Heater. .... 8 - yes 
Coffee Percolator. ..... 20S Lae 
Stove,6-inch. . . 2... .. 15. 7" 1% cts. 
Stove.8-inch." ¢ .. i.) 6 56.. 15 Sas p Ae 
Broiler: 9)x-127inches =<. . « 15> 7-* Stes 
Curling Iron Heater. . . . . | Ee ead 3a ct. 
Wteating Padme sso. 5 ohio = per hour i 
Pressing Irons, 3 to 6 lbs. . . 30 minutes 1% to 2% cts. 
Frying Pan (7 inches dvametes) 30 2% cts. 
iWattletironss)ca.ive sto Po 12 Sy It ct; 


iiea Pobre wae ee ok 20 1% cts 
GlieeP otto ecw est tees 2 Ora 1 et 
Soldering Iron, 2 lbs. up . . .30 =“ | A” ae 
Doctor's Sterilizer ..... 30eaa 5 cts. 


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Dentist’s Sterilizer . .... 30 minutes 134 cts. 
Bathroom Radiator ....30 “ eon 
Spray. Coffee Pot. 2-. a. 20) aS 134“ 
Shaving Cup, 12 shaves .. . Lose ct, 
Luminous Radiators ....30 “ 434 cts. 
Vacuum Cleaners . .- . .  .~ per hour F hachik 
Vibrators 22. o.%0) ace = . . . 15 minutes XK ct. 
Hair Dryers . . Sete. LD = 2% cts. 
Washing Machine <3» per.tonr Os 
Bread *Foaster i> 9.. 53s on fake 2 minutes Y% ct. 
Sewing Machine Motor . . . per hour | ee: 
Portable Fans .. . Ac hag a % to % et. 
Ventilators = eget er ea 1% cts. 
Water Sterilizers. . . ... Pat SE % to % ct. 
Ozone Air Generator ....“% “ Mao 
Floor Cleaner and Polisher . . “ “ 2 cts. 


NOTES 


@ We offer to our light and power customers a free trial 
of practically all the above-named Electrical household 
devices. Of course, this is done with the expectation of 
an eventual sale, but there is no obligation to purchase, and 
the free trial has no “string tied to it.” 


@ An Electric Fan, with a little care and attention now 
and then, will last a lifetime. A portable fan may be used 
in any part of your home. It may be carried from one 
location to another, and used wherever there happens to be 
a lamp socket. 


@ If you introduce Electric Light into your home, after 
you have purchased the first set of lamps, there is no 
further cost on account of lamps becoming worn out. We 
» renew all standard lamps for our customers free of charge. 


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The Philadelphia Electric Company 


‘Tenth and Chestnut Stress 


Philadelphia 


